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apport question

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 9:12 am
by seasoned_geek
The apport crash reporting does not seem to work for me. I see you are using the Ubuntu system and I am a registered user there. Do I also need to create an account for this distro as well? There were numerous crash notifications right after install.

Thanks,

Re: apport question

PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:31 pm
by swarfendor437
Ubuntu will only respond by saying you should contact the maintainer/forum of your forked distribution. Apport seems to be buggy anyway - on another distro I moderate for a fellow moderator advised to disable apport as it is as much a problem in itself as it is in attempting to report issues!

"Disable Ubuntu Apport error messages

To disable the annoying Apport error message that Ubuntu has a problem and needs to contact Ubuntu, simply paste the following terminal command:


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gksudo gedit /etc/default/apport


Gedit will open up and you need to change this:

# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=1

to this:

# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0

All you do is replace the 1 with a 0 (Zero).

Click on "Save" and then close Gedit. (There will most likely be a second page, all you need to do is close that first and don't save it before you try and save the main document!)"

[Acknowledgements to Wolfman, Zorin forum]